Kentucky Bank & Trust Co. v. Ashland Oil & Transportation Co.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

This is a suit for a declaratory judgment as to who is entitled to receive the landowner’s share or royalty of oil being produced from a 78 acre tract in Hopkins County. The controversy is between Howell Ashby’s administrator and his widow, appellants herein, on the one side, and Clyde C. Combes and others, appellees, herein, on the other side. The Ashland Oil and Transportation Company, as purchaser of the oil, is interested only to the extent of knowing to whom to pay the royalties and protecting itself for what it has paid.

On February 27, 1931, Howell Ashby and his…